In the past week, there has been growing attention online and on cable television to the so-called "birther" movement of people who believe, against all the evidence, that President Obama was not born in the United States.

Last night, comedian Jon Stewart brought his viewers up to date on the high points of that undernews narrative, to use the Mickey Kaus phrase (earlier used by William Safire) for that odd amalgam of rumor, myth, speculation and actual facts that circulates as word of mouth and online....

He’s a comedian. Any serious politician who ends up on his show should consider another line of work.

You’d have to be out of your mind to end up on that show.

As such, he doesn’t even understand the constitution. If he’s got kids, and they play baseball, he ended up needing their birth certificates. There’s zero evidence of where this guy was born, where he went to school, how he got to Indonesia, etc.

Obama can solve this in an hour. Jon can give himself a rectal exam for all I care. If he needs help bending back that far, many would love to help him out with that.

I am not a birther, but this is a biased description for what's supposed to be a straight-news story:

people who believe, against all the evidence, that President Obama was not born in the United States

First, the issue of evidence is itself disputed. Saying "against all the evidence" begs the question.

Second, what unites "birthers" is their desire for Obama to show the original Hawaii birth certificate (not the CLB). They don't ALL necessary believe, affirmatively, that he's foreign-born (although some do); but ALL believe he should come forward with the original certificate, if only to put the questions to rest.

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